The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way.

The African-American community was able to unite itself during the civil rights movement, and look at all the progress they made. As a Latino community, we need to follow that same path of unity and organization. If we don't show our strength in numbers, we will continue to be treated the same.

It will tell the stories of African-American culture from slavery through civil rights.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is the way to do it.

Brown truly becomes law, really becomes something everyone's on board with after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ... At that point, Congress said, 'We are behind Brown.'